[dahfizz]

Absolutely. This is where the real dependency bloat in ecosystems like npm come up. You may only include a handful of reasonable dependencies, but each of those have dozens of their own dependencies, and so on and so on.

[tapanjk]

This is true for [probably all] frameworks? If I develop a microservice using Spring Boot, dependencies are inevitable.

However, I think the blog post reflects a strong desire of many developers (I am one of them.) Achieving this vision, at least in commercial software, can be a utopian dream.

[jamal-kumar]

I'm super allergic to the nodejs ecosystem, it's so bad.

I also get away in my professional life using it for pretty much nothing and it's great. There's a reason Ryan Dahl moved on to Deno.

People who think it's somehow necessary or integral to getting a website going are deluded hypebeasts.